Anatolia, the heartland of the Turkish Republic, has been part of numerous empires.

Patricia Singh, a visibly Indian woman, in the heartland had no political currency.

Representatives of an economically dynamic and socially conservative heartland are moving Turkey toward reform.

Cities versus suburbs and rural areas is a better description than coasts versus heartland.

She comes from the heartland of a successful and moderate civil society flanked by extremism and rage.

Australia, too, is grappling with serious droughts in the agricultural heartland of the Murray Darling River basin.

In May 2004, The New York Times polled readers in a city in the US heartland, Oswego, Illinois.

Only a concerted law enforcement effort, with the full support of the intelligence services, can succeed in the Pakistani heartland.

Developing largely by word of mouth, this early Internet user culture appears to be an import from the Russian heartland.

But no one should think that they can be the West s tool for subduing the Sunni heartland of Iraq and Syria.

While Western Europe was free to construct common institutions for peace and prosperity, the Soviet Union subjugated our Central and Eastern heartland.

After the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak s 30 year old regime in Egypt, the heartland of the Middle East, amazement has turned into certainty.

Once again, we see that the real terrorist sanctuaries are located not along Pakistan s borders with Afghanistan and India, but in the Pakistani heartland.

To make his point, Lapid even launched his electoral campaign in Ariel, an Israeli city built in the heartland of the Palestinian West bank.

At the same time, potential Sunni Arab rivals like Hashemite Jordan and Egypt are reminded that Saudi Arabia remains the ideological heartland of Islam.

Forces built to defend the European heartland from a Soviet attack are unsuitable for the kinds of operations that define today s post Cold War environment.

There are families today near Xian, in what was the heartland of the Tang Dynasty Empire, with two acre dry wheat farms and a single goat.

The surge also opens, perhaps for the first time, a serious possibility of pouring water on the insurgent fires in Anbar province, the heartland of the Sunni insurgency.

Kadyrov s efforts can also be credited with ending major terrorist attacks in Russia s heartland, such as those that occurred in Moscow in 2002 and in Beslan in 2004.

The surge also opens, perhaps for the first time, a serious possibility of pouring water on the insurgent fires in Anbar province, the heartland of the Sunni insurgency.

Punjabi Taliban militants from the fighting in Kashmir against India continue to shuttle between the Punjab heartland and the Northwest Territories, posing another serious challenge to government authority.

While visiting Kerala in the late 1960's, I a Hindu from the Gangetic heartland went to the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Trivandrum, where the usual pandas accosted me.

Even without the active involvement of the government today, Russian society both in the heartland and in the North Caucasus is accustomed to expurgations of politically sensitive public materials.

But, when communism collapsed in its Eurasian heartland, the West s rich, believing that they had nothing more to fear, pressed to roll back the welfare state, causing inequality to rise rapidly.

Their focus on inhibiting India seems particularly misguided, given that China s core interests (Tibet, Taiwan, and the heartland of the Chinese mainland) are far beyond the reach of most of India s military capabilities.

Likewise, the old Bretton Woods institutions came to be defined by a set of economic doctrines that has now been shown to fail not only in developing countries, but even in capitalism s heartland.

For them, Jewish settlements in the territories are not a return to historical lands, but security outposts, aimed at preventing or repelling from a better strategic position an attack on the Israeli heartland.

A typical Western style house in Kampala or Accra, for example, now costs an astonishing two to three times the price of a comparable home in, say, Cleveland or other cities in the American heartland.

As the heartland of some of the strongest Islamist forces anywhere, this Saudi effort if successful and a harbinger of other needed changes may have an even more profound impact than the elections in Iraq and Palestine.

Australia, too, is grappling with serious droughts in the agricultural heartland of the Murray Darling River basin. The Mediterranean Basin, including Southern Europe and North Africa is also likely to experience serious drying as a result of climate change.

The Taliban is spread throughout the NWFP and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Punjabi Taliban militants from the fighting in Kashmir against India continue to shuttle between the Punjab heartland and the Northwest Territories, posing another serious challenge to government authority.

Many states in both camps were won by narrow margins, and if one colors the map at the level of counties rather than states, much of the country looks quite purple. Cities versus suburbs and rural areas is a better description than coasts versus heartland.

But he remains in a fantasy world in which peace with the Palestinians can be achieved for less than what previous left wing governments offered. To make his point, Lapid even launched his electoral campaign in Ariel, an Israeli city built in the heartland of the Palestinian West bank.

Through the strategic deployment of Mecca, it is hoped that the region s radicals Iraqi Shi a, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, and the Iranians will undergo a kind of healing as they gain access to Islam s holiest sites. At the same time, potential Sunni Arab rivals like Hashemite Jordan and Egypt are reminded that Saudi Arabia remains the ideological heartland of Islam.

Likewise, the old Bretton Woods institutions came to be defined by a set of economic doctrines that has now been shown to fail not only in developing countries, but even in capitalism s heartland. The forthcoming global summit must face these new realities if it is to work effectively toward creating a more stable and a more equitable global financial system.

For them, given Israel's narrow and vulnerable geographic shape and continuing Arab enmity, controlling the West Bank and Gaza is not an ideological imperative, but is driven by security considerations. For them, Jewish settlements in the territories are not a return to historical lands, but security outposts, aimed at preventing or repelling from a better strategic position an attack on the Israeli heartland.

Double bladed Chinook helicopters, diverted from fighting Al Qaida in Afghanistan, now fly over the heartland of jihad and the militant training camps in Mansehra to drop food and tents a few miles beyond. Temporarily birds of peace instead of war, they do immensely more to calm angry Islamists than the reams of glossy propaganda put out by the US information services in Pakistan.